Jeffries v. Murdock

Plaintiff appeals the trial court’s grant of a directed verdict for defendant in this medical malpractice case. He argues that evidence presented at trial was sufficient to create a jury question of defendant’s negligence and that defendant’s motion for a directed verdict therefore should have been denied. We affirm.

Defendant performed surgery on plaintiff to remove a subclavian aneurism which was discovered while plaintiff was in the hospital recovering from an unrelated operation. Defendant admits that, while concluding the surgery, he noticed that a nerve had been severed in the area from…